Anduril
Senior Numerical Optimization Engineer (Arsenal 2)
$191K–$253K
Santa Ana, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building production software systems.
- Education
- Advanced degree in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent depth built in practice.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. Person status is required to access export-controlled data.
About the job
Own and deliver the mathematical optimization and solver systems that schedule shipyard production and rapidly replan work after factory disruptions.
What you'll do
- Formulate production scheduling constraints and objectives; integrate and benchmark optimization solvers.
- Build fast local repair and background global re-planning, including schedule stability and quality evaluation.
- Turn schedules into dispatchable work orders and partner with manufacturing teams to reflect operational needs.
What they ask for
- Deep numerical optimization expertise and experience formulating real-world problems as mathematical models and deploying them in production systems.
- Hands-on experience with optimization solvers or libraries; expert Python skills and scientific computing foundations in NumPy, SciPy, and Pandas.
- Experience with large-scale scheduling or resource allocation and reliable systems under operational constraints.
- Advanced degree in a related quantitative field, or equivalent depth built in practice; U.S. Person status required.
Nice to have
- Ph.D. or experience in RCPSP, job shop scheduling, or dynamic rescheduling.
- Experience with metaheuristics, decomposition, C++ or Rust optimization code, manufacturing systems, or non-traditional optimization hardware.
Pay
$191,000 — $253,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Gurobi, CPLEX, OR-Tools, SCIP
AI focus
Use AI tooling, including coding assistants and automation, in the development workflow and contribute to team engineering practices.
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